b'KENNARDS HIRE Since 1948TAKING HIRE HIGHER | 122CELEBRATIONWorking those roles gave me a very holistic view andThe great thing about Kennards is that a lot of the understanding of the business, he says.people who are in senior leadership positions now came into the business in junior positions. Its a fantastic Manelle Merhi started at Lift & Shift as a part-timething, and something Id love to think we can preserve marketing assistant while in her final year of uni. Twentyfor the future because weve got a bunch of really bright years on, she is Kennards Hires general manager ofyoung people coming through now that deserve that marketing and customer experience, responsible foropportunity, Peter Lancken says.many of the most memorable advertising and marketing campaigns that helped position Kennards Hire as aBrendan Fleiter agrees. We are an organisation that serious trade hire company. provides opportunity for people regardless of your station in life, or the circumstances you might have Stuart Dean started out in IT and is now COO, Tombeen born into. You can still work your way up to the Kinross went from shop floor to NZ general manager,top echelons of the organisation if youve got the right and two other members of the thirty-years-plus club,attitude, and its based on merit and not on who you Matt Hardy and Darren Simmons, began their workingare or the politics you play or whatever else, he says. life at Kennards Hire as casuals and rose to becomeKennards gives people a genuine opportunity in a general managers of Queensland and New Southgrowing business. Wales respectively. They were mates prior to Kennards Hire (Matt got Darren the job), and their friendshipIts exactly the way Andy intended it to be. While he has enduredexcept maybe when the QOM Awardsadmires those who go on to higher education and can come around. Then all bets are off as the states gosee the benefit it brings, theres nothing like hours on head-to-head. the ground to succeed at Kennards Hire.'